Nearly 400 participants from more than 30 countries gathered in September at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (known as ETH Zürich) for the 7th IGeLU Annual meeting. Besides the sessions on company’s and product development by Ex Libris, IGeLU update and two inspiring keynotes by Paul Ayris and Sally H. McCallum, business sessions […]
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As is now traditional at the annual conference, a General Q&A (Question and Answer) session took place with Ex Libris executives at the Zurich meeting in September. Again, the company provided a first class panel to comment all the issues that had been raised via web form, mail box or from the audience: + Matti […]
Read More… from Zurich meeting: General Question & Answer session
As is now traditional at the annual conference, a General Q&A (Question and Answer) session took place with Ex Libris executives at the Zurich meeting in September. Again, the company provided a first class panel to comment all the issues that had been raised via web form, mail box or from the audience: + Matti […]
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After the terms of Michele Newberry, Michael Fake and Lucas Koster expired in Zurich, three new members joined the Steering committee: + Naomi Greidinger from the University of Haifa, Israel + Mark Dehmlow from the University of Notre Dame, USA + Theo Engelman from Utrecht University, Netherlands (the responsibilities of the new SC members see: […]
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At the IGeLU Conference, Ex Libris announced they would be replacing the Pivotal system with a new system, SalesforceCRM, in 2013 with an anticipated implementation date of mid-2013. As part of the implementation project, Ex Libris asked the IGeLU and ELUNA User Groups to provide lists of features which we want to see in the […]
The months since the conference in Zurich have been a quiet time for the PWG, but things will get busy again in the new year with planning for the next round of voting for enhancements. The IGeLU PWG is working much more closely with the ELUNA group, with (so far) the coordinator from IgeLU joining […]
The SFX Product Working Group met in Zurich during the IGeLU conference to discuss the new line-up of the working group, our ongoing projects, and our goals for the year 2013. With Mark Dehmlow leaving for the Steering Committee and Nikki Crowster continuing towards new challenges, we were happy to welcome new members to the […]
OvP functionality In the Zurich conference the National User Groups complained about the lack of functionality in the Opac via Primo (OvP) setup. Because of this, libraries have to maintain their Opac or develop the needed functionality themselves. That does not comply with the claim from Ex Libris that Primo would lower the Total Cost […]
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The Alma Product Working Group (PWG) was established in August as a joint ELUNA/IGeLU PWG, since the Alma community is still relatively small. The working body if this group has thirteen! members and can be viewed at: https://igelu.org/products/alma A web page has been established (https://igelu.org/products/alma). We are working to populate the page with content. An […]
Short after the 2012 conference the user community was informed by Ex Libris that the company was acquired by another private equity company Golden Gate Capital. In discussions with Ex Libris management we understand that Golden Gate Capital is interested in further growth of the company with its current management on board and further following […]